| Show PRESIDENT EL P ASOaI I 5 Chief Magistrate Arrived at the GatewaytQ I Mexico and Received a Very Cordial Greeting < i President Diaz of Mexico Sent Greeting Through a Personal Representative Rep-resentative asHe Was Unable to Go Himself Presidential Party Spends a Quiet Sabbath Today the Texas City Will Give Him a Demonstration 131 Paso Tex May 5The Presidential Presiden-tial party ruached 151 Paso the gateway to Mexico at9 clock this morning and will remain here until noon tomorrow President Diaz of Mexico had hoped to meet the President h roJmd shake I hands with hjin across the border but as the Mexican Congress is in session ses-sion he could not leave the capital He sent pensonal message to the President Pres-ident however and also dispatched Don Juan Hernandez commander of the I Second military zone of Chihuahua I Chihua-hua to personally present his good wishes to the Chief Magistrate of the United States Coy Miguel Ahumadi of Chihuahua the most northerly Stale of Mexico also traveled to ftl Paso to pay his respects and these dla J tingruishcd Mexican officials l accompanied accom-panied by Gen Hernandezs staff in full uniform Were received by the Prcs identin his car at the Elation I After exchanging felicitations the President requested Gen Hernandez I lo convey to President Diaz his per ional I good wishes for the health and happiness of President Diass and for a I continuation of the cordial relations at present existing between the two countries President Diazs message was as follows MESSAGE FJROM DIAZ City of Mexico May 5 1901 To tho President of the United States oC Amer lea 121 Pnao TcxWhcn you arrive this diy ML i tln frontier Mexico 1 wish I I might blink hands with you but J acnd you as cordial a salute MS corresponds I with the cordial relations which exist be tween the LVO republics of North A mer lon I also eml Gen Ilcrnridcz I 16 express ex-press to you the same fecllnps S PORFJJ1IO DIAZ PRESIDENT SENT TUTS RESPONSE El Paso Tex May C 1MK To His 1 Ex cellencyGon Porflrio Diaz President the Republic Mexico City of Mexico Mpx It gives mo great pleasure to reCiprocate clprocnte the courteous greeting of your Excellency and to express my most cor dial good wishes for your health and happiness and for tile continued prosper ity of the Mexican republic to which wo are bound ap nnny ties of mutual Interest In-terest and Artondahlp VITrTAM MltJNriEY PASSED QUIET SUNDAY It being Sunday the President had requested th localcommittee here not to arrange any programme for the dny Ills wishes were respected and the lUll itary praIflct offilcinl exercJsris were posjponjd l inl iomorrQv The President and Mrq McKinley and them the-m mberso the Cabinet attended the Stanton street fItchllrchhi the morning and Jn the afternoon some of the party went out for a drive SERENADED BY MEXICANS Aft2T dark tonight the Mexican band which had been brought from the City of Mexico by Gen Hernandez serenaded sere-naded the President and MY McKinley McKin-ley at the train No horns or drums were used and tie soft languorous Spanish airs strummed on guitnis and mandolins in the cool of the evening were thoroughly enjoyed MEXICAN l ETE DAY While It was a comparatively quiet day in J3I I Paso notvlthstandlng the large number of strangers in town it was otherwise in the Iexican city of Juarez Just acrOss the Rio Grande May 5th is the anniversary of the defeat de-feat of the French imaders at Pueblo and Is celebrated ourFqurth of July Is in the United States The Mexicans arc not puriianical In iheir observance of the Sabbath Indeed Sunday is i always al-ways a role day with them BULl FIGHT AT JUAREZ Today the great1feature of the cele bra ion w1sa Spanish bull fight A famous matador Ijad come to Juarez I froin the City of Mexico for the occasion occa-sion Nbne of the members of the Presidents Pres-idents Immediate party attended but bull fighting the national sport in Mexico as In Spain and Geri Hernandez and the Governor of Chihuahua occupied occu-pied l a box overlooking the ring The fight proved to be morethan usually bloody and Tjriital The jiCtcasualties were four bails dispatched horse I killed two picadors uhhurscd and one toreador severely but not fatally wounded nshe was helped over the fence surrounding he arenaby a maddened j mad-dened bull I MEXICAN BREAKFAST I Tomorrow Coy MuVpbV Arizona I and his slatT will participate in l the formal for-mal greetings One of the features of the progivunme tomorrow J iS i lo be u Mexican breakfast with the typical Spanish dishes for the ladles 1 of the J r party |
